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Anti-Trump forces threaten lawmakers' lives in name of #Resistance
Thr Washington Times ^ | 24 May 2018 | James Varney

Posted on 05/29/2018 3:32:20 AM PDT by Magnatron

Political conversations have grown increasingly nasty in recent years, and it may be spawning something even worse: a growing number of people taking their vitriol to another level by threatening members of Congress.

In the past couple of months, the Justice Department announced action in four cases involving people who threatened serious harm, or even death, to federal lawmakers.

Most of those threats were made online, reflecting just one way people can convey their most vulgar feelings toward those on other sides of public policy disputes.

Most of the targets have been Republican lawmakers, who are in the crosshairs of anti-Trump forces who relish their stance as a self-styled #Resistance.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; carterpage; election2018; election2020; freetommy; georgepapadopoulos; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; radicals; resistance; robertmueller; samclovis; stefanhalper; theleft; violence; witchhunt
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To: Texas Fossil

I share your suspicions but signed anyway, I feel sometimes you just have say what-the-heck to get in their face and that includes taking advantage of their own media tools.
The petition is now over 460,000 and rising every second. It is not “featured” (i.e. excluded?) but it comes out top if people simply browse for what is popular right now!


41 posted on 05/29/2018 6:21:33 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: ScottinVA

“...The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it....”

Agreed. We need to remain armed, ready and vigilant.


42 posted on 05/29/2018 6:27:59 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Mr Radical

Here are the roots of the petition site.

Ben Rattray and Change.org

“a social network for social justice”

https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Ben-Rattray-and-Change-org-3781962.php

This is the enemy camp, no matter how they try to hide it. I regret giving them my name and email.

Will not again. No matter what.

They support Amnesty International (which is supported by Soros) Note: I have mixed feelings about Amnesty International. Some good, but they are NOT unbiased. I’ve heard complaints from my Syrian Kurd friends about how they project things.

And it would not surprise me if change .org was Soros funded too.

This is a “for profit” group. although they don’t currently show to be making a profit.

I simply do not trust them. Should have known better. First instinct told me they were trouble.


43 posted on 05/29/2018 6:31:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Magnatron

Is George Soros funding these monsters? Or just encouraging the hate?


44 posted on 05/29/2018 6:34:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump needs to send informants to check Democrat's campaigns-make sure dems are 'safe'...)
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To: Texas Fossil
Interesting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change.org

Change.org is a petition website operated by for-profit Change.org, Inc., an American certified B corporation[1] which claims to have over 100 million users[2] and hosts sponsored campaigns for organizations. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.[3] The website serves to facilitate petitions by the general public.[4] Corporations including Virgin America,[5] and organizations such as Amnesty International and the Humane Society, pay the site to host and promote their petitions.[6

45 posted on 05/29/2018 6:37:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump needs to send informants to check Democrat's campaigns-make sure dems are 'safe'...)
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To: GOPJ

Yep.


46 posted on 05/29/2018 6:38:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Magnatron

I am not convinced this is any different than any other election year.


47 posted on 05/29/2018 8:32:48 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Magnatron
Most of the targets have been Republican lawmakers, who are in the crosshairs of anti-Trump forces who relish their stance as a self-styled #Resistance.

Once again, imagine the mainstream coverage if the politics were reversed. Those Violent, Dangerous Tea Partiers strike again!!1!

48 posted on 05/29/2018 8:38:11 AM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: ScottinVA

Making that my tag line.

Thanks Scotty :D


49 posted on 05/29/2018 9:09:29 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Magnatron
Michelle Malkin specifically warned about this in one of the last chapters of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.
50 posted on 05/29/2018 9:51:11 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: i_robot73

“If the Leftist mob any less ‘justified’ than the Right version of the same?”

Of course it is.

Evil is never justified.


51 posted on 05/29/2018 10:02:04 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: lgjhn23
“...The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it....”

Agreed. We need to remain armed, ready and vigilant."

Sad but true. Their tolerance only extends to those who agree with their liberal thoughts. Keep your powder dry and never trust these liberal dingbats.

52 posted on 05/29/2018 10:03:02 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Texas Fossil

Don’t worry about signing a petition from Change.org. It WAS started on Obama with the promise that any petition that got 100,000 signatures would get attention from the White House. But lots of petitions are put up by conservatives as well as liberals. I’ve signed several myself & have had no issues.


53 posted on 05/29/2018 11:02:44 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: ScottinVA
Las Vegas Massacre Possibly Joint Antifa/ISIS Operation, Former FBI Agent Says
May 27, 2018
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-las-vegas-massacre-possibly-joint-antifa-isis-operation-former-fbi-agent-says/
54 posted on 05/29/2018 11:21:25 AM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: Texas Fossil

That change website — anybody can put a petition up there and circulate it online.

Whatever weird effects you were seeing probably don’t relate to that specific site.

It’s a jungle out there.


55 posted on 05/29/2018 11:43:24 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: rx

Where is Hussein these days? Community organizing his brownshirts for more violence?


56 posted on 05/29/2018 11:58:19 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: Magnatron

The mainstream media has jinned up all this hate with the promise that they get Trump tomorrow or next week.

Now it’s all falling apart and they can’t turn off the hate like a switch.


57 posted on 05/29/2018 12:12:53 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Vaquero

Well all those scary looking antifa twits look prepared...... With their airsoft rifles and the tactical vests. LOL


58 posted on 05/29/2018 12:14:11 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: rx

Barack Hussein Obama’s goal was to destroy traditional America, and frankly America as we once knew it.

And in that, he was quite successful. He had a lot of help from Hollywood, the MSM, the Uniparty.....


59 posted on 05/29/2018 12:31:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

they need to be put in a rubber rooms for their own protection. They’re as nutty as Adam Lanza or Dimitrios Pagourtzis or any of the other sick bastards who can’t cope within a society. And believe me… the Dhimmicrats love them out and about.


60 posted on 05/29/2018 12:32:15 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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